Disowning Knowledge
In Seven Plays of Shakespeare

Reissued with an essay on Macbeth this is a collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies.

Stanley Cavell (Author)

9780521821896, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 April 2003

272 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.57 kg

'Stanley Cavell's essays on Shakespeare - deep, intellectually tenacious, and humane meditations on the nature of artistic genius - are thrilling and essential reading. They illuminate the relation between skepticism and theater, transform the language of literary criticism, and heighten the ethical significance of aesthetic response.' Professor Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University

Reissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Preface and acknowledgements
Preface to the updated edition
1. Introduction
2. The avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear
3. Othello and the stake of the other
4. Coriolanus and interpretation of politics
5. Hamlet's burden of proof
6. Recounting gains, showing losses: reading The Winter's Tale
7. Macbeth appalled
Index of names and titles.

Subject Areas: Shakespeare studies & criticism [DSGS]